Cephalopholis colonus (Valenciennes, 1846)

Love, Milton S., Bizzarro, Joseph J., Cornthwaite, Maria, Frable, Benjamin W. & Maslenikov, Katherine P., 2021, Checklist of marine and estuarine fishes from the Alaska-Yukon Border, Beaufort Sea, to Cabo San Lucas, Mexico, Zootaxa 5053 (1), pp. 1-285 : 145

Cephalopholis colonus (Valenciennes, 1846) .

Pacific Creolefish. To 43 cm (16.9 in) TL ( Prado and Béarez 2004). San Diego, southern California ( Robins et al. 1991) to Islas Lobos de Afuera, Peru ( Chirichigno and Vélez 1998), including Gulf of California (Heemstra in Fischer et al. 1995) and such offshore islands as Islas Galápagos ( Grove and Lavenberg 1997). Depth: surface ( McCosker et al. 1997), 1–120 m (4–394 ft) (min.: Personal communication: Scripps Institution of Oceanography Fish Collection, La Jolla, California; max. Robertson and Allen 2015). Previously Paranthias colonus .